by Guest Author | Jan 28, 2026 | Sound Off
by Mike Dombeck, Dale Bosworth, Tom Tidwell, and Vicki Christiansen for The Hill. Twenty-five years ago, the Forest Service adopted one of the boldest conservation measures in American history, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The National Forest System already...
by Guest Author | Nov 28, 2025 | Guest Author
by Delia Malone Wolves represent wilderness. Colonizers viewed wilderness as a frontier to be conquered and converted into a landscape that mirrored Europe. This meant that wolves had to go. So, as Michael Robinson writes in Predatory Bureaucracy, wolves were killed...
by Guest Author | Nov 4, 2025 | Sound Off
Forest Service employees have endured a tumultuous nine months since Donald Trump returned to the White House. With promises to “shatter the Deep State” and downsize the federal workforce, the president appointed an Office of Management and Budget director who said...
by Guest Author | Sep 3, 2025 | Sound Off, Writers On The Range
by Mitch Friedman, Writers on the Range It didn’t get much notice, but President Trump has turbocharged logging on public lands in ways that are likely to increase dangerous wildfire. Inside the “Big Beautiful Bill” that became law this summer, a provision directs the...
by Guest Author | Aug 18, 2025 | Guest Author
The Out-sized Impacts of Roadways on Plants and Animals and What We Can Do to Reconnect Nature by Ben Goldfarb The Kicking Horse Valley, a canyon tucked into Canada’s Yoho National Park, is a challenging place to be an elk. A herd of around two dozen migratory elk...
by Guest Author | Mar 16, 2025 | Guest Author
by Jonathan P. Thompson In December 2024, President Joe Biden signed the Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act into law, opening the door for “good samaritans” to clean up some of the more than 500,000 abandoned mining-related sites across the U.S. without...
by Guest Author | Sep 4, 2024 | Guest Author
by Ann Vileisis The U.S. Forest Service recently denied a petition brought by 27 conservation groups from 14 states urging the agency to adopt a rule to better protect the special type of peat-forming wetlands known as fens. Nourished by the continual flow of...
by Guest Author | Apr 17, 2024 | Guest Author
by Grant Werschkull The Smith River watershed in northern California and southern Oregon is a land of superlatives. Ancient redwood forests stand along the lower river as it flows through Redwood National and State parks. The Smith is the only major undammed river in...
by Guest Author | Feb 25, 2024 | Sound Off
by Jim Furnish In my 34-year career at the U.S. Forest Service, the agency worked to support American industry while also maintaining public lands and the renewable resources they foster. That’s why I am shocked to learn that the agency plans to make a fundamental...
by Guest Author | Feb 19, 2024 | Sound Off, Writers On The Range
by John Clayton, Writers on the Range When my friends and I encountered the fresh grizzly bear scat, we were deep in Wyoming’s Teton Wilderness, 20 miles from a trailhead. I’d seen grizzlies before—from the car. But this experience was on a whole other level. I felt...
